Spring (Hot)
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
This one has no proper name on the record, listed as Spring (Hot), a thermal point in Elko County with Jackpot given as the nearest town at a distance that rounds to zero. The water comes out at a good soaking heat, a little above a hot bath. Dean Pass Road is the road on file. Ownership and access are not recorded.
A couple of hundred feet from Dean Pass Road, roadside by any measure. The spring sits at about 5,350 feet in high desert with a cool annual average. Winter snow totals around three feet. No land manager or unit appears.
Winter is the listed season, and water at this temperature is at its best in cold air. With a reading above 100 it will feel hot getting in; ease in. No campground is on file. The sample dates from 1968, with low mineral content. Since no access status is recorded and a town is adjacent, ask locally before soaking.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Spring (Hot).
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 205 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 71% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at Spring (Hot) is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5) with 248 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Spring (Hot) sits at 5,350 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 21% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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